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BLOCK 2: Leaf production and silkworm rearing programme management
Unit 1:
Leaf production and supply management
Quality mulberry leaf production and supply management
Unit 2:
Synchronized silkworm rearing programme management
Synchronized silkworm rearing programme – manpower, community
rearing, house management, marketing of cocoons.
BLOCK 3: Silk reeling unit management
Unit 1:
Management of silk reeling unit
Reeling unit management – organization set up, raw materials- cocoons,
fuel, water.
Unit 2:
Constraints and risk management
Manpower, procurement skills – constraints, marketing – case studies
of charka, cottage basin and filature basin, management of by-products
of sericulture – risk management/ non-cash input management.
VII. Practicals
• Study of concept, principals, management and resource management in sericulture;
• Study of organizational set up in Sericultural organizations;
• Producing planning for grainage;
• Raw material management;
• Reeling unit management: man power, raw material, fuel and water;
• Planning for establishment of Chawki Rearing Centre (CRC);
• Planning for establishment of grainage;
• Study of by-products in sericulture;
• Record maintenance in sericulture activities;
• Study of leaf production and supply chain management;
• Risk management/ non cash management in sericulture;
• Visit to grainage and CRC;
• Case study: chawki rearing unit and silk cocoon production;
• Case studies: silkworm seed production unit;
• Case studies: filature and cottage basin units;
• Case studies: Charaka unit, improved Charaka units;
• Visit to seed cocoon markets;
• Visit to silk reeling units.
VIII. Teaching Methods/ Activities
– Lectures
– Assignments (Reading/ Writing)
– Text Books/ Publication reviews
– Class presentations and assignments
– Experimentation
– Group discussion
– Group work
– Laboratory exercises

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Sericulture